Mine is plain/lightly salted Doritos/tortilla chips dipped/scraped in unsalted butter.

I’m now wondering whether this is a little too specific of a question and I just really needed somewhere to get this off my chest…

  • @3volver
    16•3 months ago

    In an overly consumerist late-stage capitalistic society, my socially unacceptable guilty indulgence is minimalism.

    • @[email protected]
      5•3 months ago

      Along similar lines, I think one of mine has become resisting our cultural expectation of constant growth in all areas possible.

      Carter is an obvious one. I like my job and it makes my day more pleasant than past jobs have. The pay is good. I don’t need to painstakingly plan a path to be the manger then the director then the VP, just to spend more of my life working.

      I have big plans for the future of the koi pond in my back yard though. The more of my life I spend working on that thing, the better my life seems to get.

      (The things that matter or don’t matter are inherently personal - I’m not trying to insult anybody who gets genuine thrill and fulfillment from kicking ass at work constantly. )

    • @Duamerthrax
      3•3 months ago

      oh god, the reactions I get when I’d rather repair a thing for the same cost as buying the same thing. It even happens when fixing the thing is cheaper.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•3 months ago

        I get this. I’m the director of a small tech company, market forces demand that I just do more work instead, but sometimes some trivial 2$ device breaks and it personally offends me.

        So I re-engineer it so it’s rated for 100+ years or whatever. I get the boards made in the factory, assemble with hot-air rework, and write the firmware myself. Sometimes it costs me a week, but it produces the things I’m most happy with.

        Clients just want cheap stuff done poorly by tomorrow. If you want art, you’ve got to be your own customer :(